Burbank Among the Indians
January 7, 1945
Newspaper clipping - Book Review
Tulsa Daily World

Private Collection
Harvard, IL

From the Julsen Collection

"BURBANK Among the Indians" seems to me a most unique book, for its appeal ranges from the art connoisseur and the student of Indian affairs through the layman interested in the story of Burbank's years living among various Indian tribes to the child just awakening to the ... e of good reading and intent on suspenseful, action-and-fact ... literature.

E. A. Burbank, commonly acknowledged to be the greatest living portrait painter of the American Indian and hailed by the famous cowboy artist, Charles Russell, as the greatest of all time, visited 128 tribes including the Apaches, Kiowas, Sioux, Hopi, Zuni and Arapahoes, between 1890 and 1900. During those years he made his fine portrait of Geronimo, as well as innumerable studies of warriors, chiefs, encampments, squaws, Rain-in-the-Face, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, the ferocious Nez Perces - a gallery of Indian faces and Indian life. It was fortunate that he did his work when he did, for by the turn of the century the great old chieftains were dead or dying, the remaining Indians had forsaken their past and were becoming "civilized," the world of the Red Man was passing.

But E. A. Burbank. with his distinguished career in full flower and urged on by the Field Columbian Museum, went out in the very nick of time among the Indians to execute portraits that were neither idealistic nor tinctured with satire. It is some of these portraits, together with the detailed story of his experiences as he told them to Ernest Royce, that "Burbank Among the Indians" presents. Published by Caxton Printers and priced at $5, this is a volume to be treasured for both its historical and artistic value."